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Re: Quantum RNG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Thu Jul 6 16:18:40 2006
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Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:05:49 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: Taral <taralx@gmail.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Taral wrote:
> Noise-based RNGs are just as random and just as
> "quantum". :)
Shot noise is just as quantum. Johnson noise (which
most hardware generators use) is thermal noise, so not
quantum.
Not that the difference between thermal noise and
quantum uncertainty matters for our purpose, unless the
adversary is submerging your hardware in liquid helium.
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